The first of many days to come...

This is a photograph taken by my lovely mac...of a painting that I painted last year. I started painting this in the winter probably close to around this time. I wanted to capture the winter sky and trees. The nakedness of everything. The silhouette of trees against the sunsetting sky is one of my favorite things. Something about it just quiets me to look at the subtle shapes of the branches and I like to slowly follow the lines up and down the trees until it all kind of gets blurry. I really admire people/ authors who can describe scenes so well that you feel as if you are there. I don't pretend to really be great at this- but it is something I will probably practice trying to describe these little photos- apologies ahead of time.

This is my first try at this whole blipfoto thing and I think I like it. I am in search of some new outlets for expressing and thinking...just getting my thoughts out there. Taking pictures helps. Kind of self medicating in a way. Therapeutic maybe? Thanks to Courtney and Stephanie Johnson who kind of piloted this thing all year....and they are still lovin it so I thought I would give it a try. Thanks ladies.

And to conclude...a very true quote I read today-

In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be, and in order to find myself I must go out of myself, and in order to live I have to die. The reason for this is that I am born in selfishness and therefore my natural efforts to make myself more real and more myself, make me less real and less myself, because they revolve around a lie.

New Seeds of Contemplation- Thomas Merton